Contents

Noise in the workplace

Journal:
Manual of European Environmental Policy
ISSN:
1467-0445
E-ISSN:
1740-3529
Publisher:
Routledge,
DOI:
10.3763/meep.2010.0152
Author:
Institute for European Environmental Policy
Information last updated:
December 2011
Publication date:
December 2011

The aim of the Directive 2003/10/EC is to protect workers from risks to their hearing by setting down minimum requirements for their protection. Article 5(1) of the Directive 2003/10/EC requires that, taking into account technical progress and the measures available to control the risk at source, ‘the risks arising from exposure to noise shall be eliminated at their source or reduced to a minimum’. Directive 2003/10/EC also sets a new daily exposure limit value of 87 dB(A). It is a daughter Directive adopted under Directive 80/1107/EEC. It is also the 17th Directive adopted within the meaning of Article 16(1) of the Framework Directive 89/391/EEC, on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work.

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